Full Guide to Gamecube Backup/Booting

If the onely thing I want to do is simply make a copy of data on the memory card and that's it, do I need any other software aside from ctr-gcs?

 

Yeah dante, i agree with everything u said. There must be a possible exploit of some sort. I reckon its just a matter of time. Hopefully fartdude will be giving us an update of how his mate's managed it. I was thinking that he may have made his own dvd writer firmware or image patching software. The thing that makes me doubt it is, that the info hasn't been shared and a lot of people with experience of advanced ripping and patching haven't managed it. Might be a software leak from nintendo that people are keeping hush about for specific reasons. Anyway unless its not publicised in the next few months im gonna get a viper when their slightly cheaper.

 

sdload looks promising

 

Is Fartdude coming back? =\

 

hey man this is a forum not a dating site! only kidding

 

hi everybody ,i am new to this so be kind, but i need to know where to find out a step by step way to make a copy of my gc games .or where i can go to know how to do them.thanks

 

Download this guide. It shows you how to backup, boot, rip and stream complete step by step.

http://www.sharemation.com/nemo556/...Gamecube Ripping and Streaming (Trial V.).exe

 

You could always visit www.ultimatemod.com for the cheapest and safest way to get your hands on a Viper GC chip.

 

(Opps, ment to reply publicly, but somehow did it private 1st time around. Doh! Lets try again here now. )

@Fartdude

Let me explain something how the gamecube works so you can understand why many people are skeptical of what you said.

Gamecube has two primary methods of protection. One is a propriatory data format for the mini DVD's. The other is BCA encoding.

The propriatory data format is easy enough to get around. Any skilled hacker & programmer can create a firmware for their drive to read/burn it. It could also be copied by professional disc duplicators. Not a big deal.

The BCA encoding however is another matter. This is where a seperate burning machine overburns a barcode onto the media just before and partialy overlapping the disc lead-in. It's not a circular burn like the data, but across the disc from the center straight out. There is NO dvd burner in existance that can burn a BCA, it requres a special BCA machine. Without this BCA barcode, the gamecube will not recognize the disc as being valid and will not boot it.

For your friend to make a burned and bootable on non-modded equipment GC disc would require:

Him using a nintendo special recorder, copies of the original disc or iso's, and access to a BCA machine.
Him using a professional disc duplicator, copies of the original discs, and a BCA machine.
Him using a hacked dvd burner, copies of the original discs or iso images, and a BCA machine.

No matter what the case, it requres access to specialized and expencive equipment that 99.999999999% of the people on this planet do NOT have access to.

Not saying it's not possible. Maybe he does have access to a BCA machine. There are a hand full of people in the world that do, and I'm sure they have friends, and you're lucky enough to be one. Regardless, it's a special situation.

For most of the people in the world, it's just not possible because they don't have access to the required resources.

 

I'd say more like 99.99999999999% myself

Theres only about 400 people on the planet that can use those machines fart dude.

 

Hello, I am new to this forum.

I have read and followed through all the steps in the guide in the first post. I managed to get Zelda Four Swords and Paper Mario 2 to work. Also, I managed to get the 100mbit (s3-gcsim) to work fine with out crashing.(it does help Paper Mario 2 especially during fight scenes) I have also managed to get the gameboy advance pack by deathcube to work.

However, those are the only two gamecube games I get going. The rest of the images refused to boot. Either I get a freeze after the first screen "Nintendo"(Luigi's Mansion) or black screen(RE4). It seems like Phoenix stop sending data or something.

Also, Phoenix 2.45 seems to have A LOT of options. I am hoping someone can point me to a manual where all those options are explained so I can know when to best use which option. For example, I don't even know the difference between PSUL or PSOLoad. I just switch back and forth hoping for it to work.

I am aware of the other methods, but I like this method more as the game Phantasy Star Online is good IMO. So please, someone with a good grip on this method help me.

Last but not least, this is an awsome forum! Has so many different sections that google points to here in nearly all searches.

 

okay, and once i have the iso image file on my computer, if i copied it to a cd and deleted it off
my computer, when i put the cd in, would it take
an hour to load up again??

 

I have the same problem where Luigi's mansion crashes after displaying the nintendo logo.

 

I am simply trying to save the user data to my memory card and it will not save the data. The PSUL server just repeats the following message "Served DNS query from 192.168.1.32" I've followed "The definitive Guide to Gamecube Ripping and Streaming" and I've reconfigured several times. I now have a dedicated NIC Card and a Crossover cable and I still recieve this error.

 

ok could someone please tell me the basic spec of pc to run the games for the gamecube thanks

 

have you looked at this topic's first post...

 

[bold]Don't double post[/bold]

 

And that car of yours is pretty annoying.

 

Drive me.

 

Hi,

I have a big problem I have Phoenix 2.5 and when I double click it it won't run ? It does absolutely nothing (do I have to install something in order for it to run, just formatted pc)

THX

John